Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pointed out that, of 500 permanently commissioned colonels (56 to 64 years old), only 30 now have troop commands. Of the rest, some are doing well enough in staff and office jobs (where, said General Marshall, "we need their brains more than their legs"). Others are simply awaiting the ax...
...biggest Goya show ever seen in the U. S. Chicagoans laid aside their war-headlined newspapers and went to look at pictures, in the ponderous, heavy-walled Chicago Art Institute. The exhibition last week was a record of war and revolution. Its pictures showed hangings, ax-murders, mutilations, bloody massacres of innocent civilians, trains of plodding, bewildered refugees, the indecisive faces of weak, shambling statesmen, vacillating, incompetent rulers. They showed chaos, panic, famine. The savage, flaming scenes, more than a century old, had a familiar, contemporary look, for the world as it looked to Spain's great painter...
...critical standards of radio are as simple as a stone ax. The program that attracts the biggest audience is the best program. The highest accolade that radio can offer is conferred on aerial shows by a statistical organization, Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting (Crossley). Last week C. A. B.'s Manager Alcuin Williams Lehman, in the pages of the trade journal Broadcasting-Broadcast Advertising, conferred radio's patents of nobility...
Said Mr. Schock: "I have no ax to grind. ... If the public continues to patronize the company, the sum will be abundant...
...last week this wish neared the border line of reality. Henry Ford, 77, gleefully swung an ax with all his lanky might against the plastic rear end of a special Ford car. Then he pointed to the un dented, unmarred finish, announced his company would be mass-producing plastic-bodied automobiles in at least one, at most three years...